Chandigarh Group of Colleges


The Chandigarh Group of Colleges are the educational institutions located in Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar district of Punjab in short distance from cities of Chandigarh and Mohali. Chandigarh Group of Colleges was established in 2001 at Landran initially and at Jhanjheri in 2012. In 2009, Chandigarh Group of Colleges Gharuan was established as Punjab's first integrated campus. In 2012, CGC Gharuan campus was granted university status as Chandigarh University.

Research & Development

Chandigarh Group of Colleges is among top 10 institutes of India in terms of number of patents filed. CGC has MoU with National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology for Entrepreneurship, R&D Projects and training. CGC is member of AI and Deep learning project under Newton Bhabha Fund sanctioned by UK's Royal Academy of Engineering. CGC was granted aid by Indian Council of Medical Research for the development of nanotechnology-based lung cancer vaccine.

Campus Activities and Sports

CGC campus students get opportunities to be part of different cultural events like fashion shows, Faculty felicitation, NASA sponsored CanSat competition, MHRD's Smart India Hackathon events, Start up to Scale Up conferences, NCC best cadet, Faculty Development Programmes apart from annual Techno cultural Fests. CGC students also participate in many sports tournaments and competitions in events such as Volleyball, Wrestling, weightlifting, power lifting, best physique championships

Placements

4500 MNCs like Infosys, Wipro, Microsoft, Google, HCL, Larsen & Toubro Infotech, Tata Motors, Cadence, Dell, Polaris, SAP Labs, Adobe Systems, Citrix Systems, Oracle, Cognizant, Bharti Airtel, Deloitte, IBM with more than 490 job offers visit the campus every year for placements for both Landran and Jhanjeri campuses. Though no. of placements does not ensure that the grabbed placements are high because most of the recruiters are mass recruiters.

Courses

CGC offers following courses, such as: